A large fire was burning on Melville Island north of mainland Australia on October 4, 2006, when the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Aqua satellite passed overhead.
Published Oct 4, 2006
Multiple large fires were burning in Saskatchewan and Manitoba Provinces in central Canada on June 30, 2008.
Published Jul 2, 2008
Bushfires continued in the mountains east of Melbourne, Australia, on February 13, 2009, spreading smoke over a wide area to the west.
Published Feb 13, 2009
More than a dozen large fires (some of them fire complexes that included more than one fire) were burning in Idaho and Montana on September 12, 2007. Fires have been burning in these areas since late July.
Published Sep 13, 2007
Several people were killed by wind-driven brush fires in northern Sicily in late August 2007.
Published Aug 23, 2007
